Showing posts with label UWB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UWB. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2017

GCHQ Spy Master Quits UK’s Eavesdropping Nerve Centre

UK - GCHQ boss Robert Hannigan only took on the post in April 2014, but on Monday—in a surprise move—

he quit the job, citing "personal reasons."

He won't be handing in his (encryption) keys until a successor is found, GCHQ said.

In a letter to the UK's foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, Hannigan said that he was "proud" of the work he has overseen at the eavesdropping concrete doughnut.

He flagged up the National Cyber Security Centre as one of GCHQ's "achievements" under his tenure.

"While this work must remain secret, you will know how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ," he added in his missive to Johnson. more

Monday, May 9, 2011

Santa Eyes Help Sanitize Bad Guys - UWB Radar Sees Through Walls

 There’s a new tool available for soldiers, special forces, and police officers who must surprise a high-value terrorist or enact a hostage rescue: a one-man backpack radar that can see through walls. 

The radar technology is a few years old, but the device — the Prism 200c system from Cambridge Consultants — fits into a small pack and weighs less than 15 pounds. It provides data on the location and movement of people inside a room or building on a handheld device, meaning only a single operator is needed. That’s a big advantage in the field; previous systems were heavier and required a second person with a laptop computer to receive the data. (more) (videos)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Spies in the News this Week

Australia and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific. (more)

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Two Americans held in Iran for the last 18 months on suspicion of espionage pleaded not guilty in court on Sunday on the first day of their closed-door trial, state television reported. (more)
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Israeli journlist Anat Kam was found guilty Sunday by a court after a plea-bargain deal in which she admitted to having leaked secret military documents to a leading newspaper. (more)

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American citizen Alan Gross, who is accused of spying, is facing a 20-year prison sentence in Cuba for spying. Prosecutors in Havana have claimed Gross plotted against the state by importing satellite communications equipment and using it to gather secret information within the country. (more)

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The Taliban have killed four people in northwest Pakistan after accusing them of spying for the United States, local officials have said. (more)


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Ex-Taliban spy raking in aid money... With his fondness for American rap music and Beyoncé, Fareed Hidayati, sporting cropped hair, a clean-shaven face and speaking in a thick British accent does not seem like a typical Taliban spy. (more)

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A Chinese internet spy ring has penetrated Britain's government computer networks with malicious software, the Guardian reported. British foreign secretary William Hague told a security conference in Munich that his office repelled an attack last month by 'a hostile state intelligence agency'. (more)

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On August 20, 1940, Mercader plunged an ice axe into Trotsky's head. He died a day later.
The Russian spy behind Leon Trotsky's assassination was a James Bond-style agent who plotted the attack from a US pharmacy, according to a new book.

Josef Grigulevich, the KGB agent who planned the Bolshevik revolutionary's 1940 assassination first established a safe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the book by EB Held claims.

The book 'A Spy's Guide to Albuquerque and Santa Fe', by Mr Held, who is now director of intelligence at the US Department of Energy, appears to confirm years of speculation about a spy hideaway there.  (more) 

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This Spy Robot Will Always Find You—Unless You Stop Breathing

 
This little fellow is the TiaLinx Cougar20-H, a surveillance robot. He is capable of detecting any sneaky human presence—even through thick concrete walls—by using a ultra-wideband radio frequency sensor array and focusing on biorhythmic patterns—such as breathing. (more) (much more)

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Egypt - An amateur video showing the arrest in Egypt of an alleged spy belonging to the Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, the Sayeret Matkal, indicates how worried Tel Aviv is by the turmoil engulfing the Mubarak regime and suggests that attempts are underway by outside forces to destabilize the popular revolution. (more)

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An Israeli court sentenced an Israeli-Arab human rights activist to nine years in prison on Sunday after convicting him last year of spying for the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. (more)

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Alert - Throw These Bums Out!

Bum One...
The FM analog wireless presenter's microphone – one of the Top 5 corporate eavesdropping threats. Why?
No secret. Radio waves travel. A quarter mile is the advertised standard. Interception of an FM analog signal is easy. Safer solutions exist. Throw these bums out.

Bum Two..
Any meeting planner who still uses FM analog wireless microphones for your sensitive presentations or meetings. Educate them. Give them a chance to change. If they don't, your sensitive meetings become Town Hall Meetings. Throw these bums out.


Bum Three...
Any security director or security consultant who does not point out the dangers of FM analog wireless microphones. They have an obligation to stand up to meeting planners and
AV crews. They have an obligation to recommend one of the several, more secure, options available. If they don't. Throw these bums out.

Bum Four...
These days, any AV production company that doesn't invest in digital, encrypted wireless microphones for their clients is stupidly cheap. For years, they hid behind excuses like "digital technology is not reliable enough," and "it lacks fidelity." Those days are over.

You pay these guys hundreds of thousands each year to produce your corporate events. The least they can do is update their equipment (a one-time investment).


They KNOW they are leaking your sensitive/secret information when they continue to use FM analog wireless microphones. Not upgrading to secure communications is negligence on their part. Demand secure wireless microphones, or... throw these bums out.

Bum Five...
YOU. If you are not part of the solution, as of this moment you are now part of the problem.

The New Wireless Mics Can Make Your Meetings More Secure.
Some even have encryption capabilities!

Lectrosonics (...and an Encryption White Paper)
Zaxcom
Mipro ACT-82
Telex SAFE-1000

Infrared Choices...
Glonetic Audio
PA-System
Azden

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Ultra-wideband (UWB). Now a TSCM reality.

UWB materializes on an RSA6114A Tektronix spectrum analyzer.

New Eavesdropping Threat. Bug transmissions via Ultra-wideband. Standard eavesdropping detection techniques don't 'see' it.

Research Electronics explains it nicely...
"Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) transmitters represent a new method of RF modulation, typically consisting of extremely narrow pulses (in the range of 250 picoseconds). The modulation scheme is a time division multiplexed system based on the timing of the pulses across a large frequency range. It is suspected that this new method of modulation will likely be used for short-range communications (approximately 10 meters), but other applications will certainly be developed. With a potential frequency band of 2GHz to 10GHz, the new UWB modulation represents some interesting characteristics from the technical security perspective, specifically with regard to the detection of UWB transmissions potentially used in eavesdropping devices."

Murray Associates recognized the threat early.
(from Kevin's Security Scrapbook - February, 2002)

FutureWatch
Ultra-wideband (UWB) makes it debut...
(this will be big)

Applications...
- Ground Penetrating Radar Systems
- Wall Imaging Systems
- Through-wall Imaging Systems
- Medical Systems
- Surveillance Systems
- Vehicular Radar Systems
- Communications and Measurement Systems
Not to mention, low-probability-of-intercept bugging devices.
(Shhhhhh! We told you not to mention that.)

Because of this foresight, Murray Associates can counter UWB eavesdropping threats today. Knowledge and military-level TSCM instrumentation (from REI and Tektronix) are being used now to protect their client family.

Consider the advanced TSCM services of Murray Associates if your current TSCM team can't show you what UWB looks like.